When my accident happened, I had spent my entire life building my athletic ability, building my mental ability, making sure I could pass any tests I was ever given.
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
I usually do quite well with presents, but the problem with Christmas is it’s such a big build-up and such a big day that if someone tests you the year after, you’ve got no idea what you got.
Shifting from Tests to T20s is all about mental adjustment. I think adjusting to different conditions, in different situations is something I learnt by speaking to Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni.
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
The Lord doesn’t always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.
If you look at Mohali, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, they host T20 games, IPL all in a year. That’s the reason the crowd stays away from the Tests matches.
My career expertise is as a psychometrician – somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.
Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character.
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
That’s the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you’re signing away seven years of your life.
And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.
Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.
